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Article: Capote's early `Memories': Simple but expressive look at life in a small town.(Arts)(Theater)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 20, 1998
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Life as simple, uncomplicated, and fresh and clean as the snow is the stuff of "Holiday Memories," based on Russell Vanderbroucke's adaptation of two autobiographical short stories by Truman Capote. Written in the late 1950s and early '60s, "A Thanksgiving Visitor" and "A Christmas Memory" are melded into one piece playing at the Olney Theatre through Jan. 3.
"Holiday Memories," directed by Jim Petosa, returns us to a time when the world was a simpler place. It centers on the years the late Mr. Capote spent with an elderly relative. Deposited in the small town of Monroeville, Ala., in the early years of the Great Depression by a mother determined to seek her ...